mr assange has said that it was not wikileaks that gave the information about the democratic committee trump is taking his information over that from him rather than us intelligence agencies. this is an astonishing story. julian assange comes out and says, russia is not my sources. and then donald trump is tweeting away, saying... it is strange that the intelligence briefing has been delayed, and he has been quoting mr assange heavily today. ok, taking julian assange's perspective over intelligence experts... it is the first time you have an incoming us president quoting julian assange. giving that he is public enemy number one for eve ryo ne he is public enemy number one for everyone in the intelligence community, and accused of sexual assaults, hiding in the ecuadorian embassy... the decision by the president—elect to back him against his own intelligence services seems bizarre. off air, we were talking about the threat of the trump presidency, and this absolutely pinpoints its me. he is a man who speaks before he thinks, and he is saying, julian assange, and man accused of sexual as

mr. assange says. in julian assange's world, we're the bad guys, not the iranians, not the russians, not the north koreans. you have to remember who this guy is. wikileaks released classified information during the iraq war that our military said put our soldiers at risk. they released combat footage to try to say that our helicopter pilots are war criminals. they released classified information about communications between our government and foreign leaders that embarrassed foreign leaders and our government. so mr. assange is a fugitive from the law, hiding in an embassy, who has a history of undermining american interests. i hope no american will be duped by him. you shouldn't give him any credibility. look at his record in terms of how he treats our country. and he seems not to be concerned at all by russia, iran, or north korea. i hope the president-elect will get his information and trust the american patriots who work in the intelligence community who swear oath and allegiance to the constitution

mr assange is still wanted for questioning in sweden concerning rape allegations. in gambia, but the man he defeated, yahya jammeh, refused to stand down. the standoff caused a political crisis, that led to thousands of tourists, including many britons, being told to flee. some have been arriving back at manchester airport today. the foreign office has confirmed that six britons have died, after a road accident in saudi arabia. several more british nationals were injured. the victims are all thought to have been on pilgrimage, when their minibus crashed while travelling between mecca and medina. two of victims were from last ago, the glasgow central mosque paid tribute to them as popular members of the community was survived by their five of the community was survived by theirfive children. the headlines coming up. but now, time for a look at the weather with helen lewis. good evening, very little changes in the next 24 hours. what you have now is probably what you will have again tomorrow. we have a zone of cloud giving a few spots of the result of the south and n

mr. assange? >> how would i describe -- >> mr. assange. >> well, he's holed up in the ecuadorian embassy in london because he's under indictment, i believe, by the swedish government for a sexual crime. he has, in the interests of ostensibly openness and transparency, exposed, in his prior exposures, put people at risk by his doing that. so i don't think the intelligence community has a whole lot of respect for him. >> admiral? >> i would echo those comments. >> thank you. senator? >> thank you, mr. chairman. thank you, gentlemen, for being here today. i do thank you for your service. gentlemen, as you all know, about a year ago congress passed the cyber security information sharing act. and director clapper, could you comment on what steps have been taken to implement the act? in particular, to provide cyber threat information from the government to non-government entities. >> there's been a lot of work done, and this is principally through both the fbi and the department of homeland security, to share more broadly with the privat

mr. assange's tweets so that wasn't a consideration in this instance. 't coming here anyway. the lawyer telling the hill, quote, this is well short of what he sought. mr. assange called for chelsea manning to seek clemency. heather: critics blasting the nonpartisan group's participation claiming that mr. trump schismual assault allegations go against their values. the president elect has denied all of those claims and online petition against their involvement has nearly 120 signatures and in a statement the girl scouts say this, advocating for change on issues one cares about isn't at odds with participating in the century-long tradition that represents the peaceful exchange of power. teacher in michigan sending letter home with fourth graders expressing his concern over what mr. trump might say. a parent's claim, that is not his job. >> i think it's for a parent to handle political things and decide whether or not they watch it. >> outraged fox digital editor, listen. >> demonstrating why democrats have had such a bad run. do you think donald trump is g

director clapper, how would you describe mr assange?se of us in the intelligence community have a whole lot of respect for him. then, this blunt and direct message for president—elect trump from a senior member of his own party. i want to let the president—elect know that it's ok to challenge the intel, you're absolutely right to want to do so, but what i don't want you to do is undermine those who are serving our nation in this arena until you're absolutely sure they need to be undermined. and i think they need to be uplifted, not undermined. trump tower these days has its own micro climate of twitter storms, and today was no different. the president—elect took to social media to complain thatjournalists were being dishonest in saying he agreed withjulian assange and that he was a big fan of the intelligence community. it's emerged tonight that the prime minister, theresa may, is to visit donald trump next month. our political correspondent chris mason is at westminster with more details. what more do we know? downing street are saying

mr. assange? mr. clapper: i don't think those in the intelligence community have a lot of respect for him. nick: then this blunt and direct message for president-elect trump from a senior member of his own party. senator graham: i want to let the president-elect to know that it is ok to challenge the intel, you are right to do so. what i don't want you to do is undermine those who are serving our nation in this arena until you are absolutely sure they need to be undermined. and i think they need to be uplifted, not undermined. nick: trump tower these days has its own microclimate of twitter storms and today was no different. the president-elect took to social media to complain that journalists were being dishonest in saying he agreed with julian assange, and that he was a big fan of the intelligence community. the president-elect will receive a briefing from james clapper at trump tower tomorrow, and that has the potential to be a very frosty meeting. the key question, will it alter his present thinki

mr. assange?in the intelligence community have a whole lot of respect for him. >> admiral? >> i would echo the comments. >> the public version of clapper's report which outlines russia's motives would be released next week. some sensitive details will be left out. clapper says he is "pushing the envelope." he wants to release as many details as possible because the josh he says americans deserve to have the full picture. >> again the president elect will be briefed tomorrow. nancy cordes on capitol hill. thank you. >>> well the president-elect was reportedly kidding leaving clapper's job vacant in the new administration. but today he decided on second thought, to fill it. here is jan crawford. >> reporter: in appointing dan coats, donald trump is tapping establishment republican with strong foreign policy credentials. he served on the intelligence committee where he was a tough critic of vladamir putin. after president obama imposed sanctions against russia for its move off to annex crimea, russia

mr. assange? >> how would i describe -- >> mr. assange. >> well, he's hold up in the ecuadorean embassy in london because he's under indictment, i believe, by the swedish government for a sexual crime. he has in the interests of ostensibly openness and transparency exposed in his prior exposures put people at risk by his doing that. so i don't think those of us in the intelligence community have a whole lot of respect for him. >> admiral? >> i would echo those comments. >> thank you. senator fisher. >> thank you, mr. chairman and thank you, gentlemen, for being here today and i do thank up for your service. gentlemen, as you all know, about a year ago congress passed the cyber security information sharing act. director clapper, could you comment on what steps have been taken to implement the act, in particular to provide cyber threat information and the obsession of the federal government to non-government entities? >> there's been a lot of work done and this is principally through both the fbi and department of homeland security t

mr. assange's tweets. that wasn't a consideration in this instance and i refer you to the justice department for any criminal investigations, indictments, extradition issues that may come up with him. what i can say broadly is that in this new cyber age, we're going to have to make sure that we continually work to find the right balance of accountability and openness and transparency that is the hallmark of our democracy. but also recognize that there are adversaries and bad actors out there who want to use that same openness in ways that hurt us. whether that's in trying to commit financial crimes or trying to commit acts of terrorism or folks who want to interfere with our elections. and we're going to have to continually build the kind of architecture to make sure the best of our democracy is preserved, that our national security and intelligence agencies have the ability to carry out policy without advertising to our adversaries what it is we're doing. but do so in a way that still keeps citizens up to

mr. assange? how would i describe mr. assange? up in the ecuadoran embassy, in london. because he's under indictment, i by the swedish for sexual crime. he has, in the interest of openness and in his ency, exposed prior exposures, put people at his doing that. those of us in the intelligence community have a whole lot of respect for him. admiral? -- those d echo mows comments. >> thank you, mr. chairman, and gentlemen, for being here today, di do thanks you for your service. you know the cybersecurity nformation sharing act was passed. mr. claerp, could can you comment on what steps have been the act in mplement particular, to provide cyberthreat information in the of the federal government to nongovernment entities? lot of work been a done, and this is principally f.b.i. and the homeland security. o share more broadly with the private sector. this is -- prior to the think nt of this act, i this has been a theme that we've hard.orked certainly one of the reasons for the creation of the office of irector of national intelligence was to assume a well, and to as promote sh

mr. assange than our intelligence officials, for example, the office of national intelligence is an extraordinarily important position. it was designed to break down the walls that kept the agencies from sharing information. we all understand that smart policies ensure that you have security and liberty. and i would like to see some of the details with respect to what the president-elect is talking about on intelligence and i'm not willing to just say without any additional information we're going to toss the position that's supposed to ensure that information is shared in the trash can. >> in your briefings have intelligence officials expressed concerns about mr. trump's skepticism about their find spgs. >> we're not going to get into anything classified. obviously, intelligence officials going back to october 6th, going back to what director clapper said and director jeh johnson said, they were very troubled about russia's interference in the election and that goes back months now. >> yes. >> some of you have met with dr. price. would you care to share the impressions? >> i have not met with him.

mr. assange? >> how would i describe? >> mr. assange? >> well, he's holed up in the ecuadorian embassy in london. because he's under indictment, i believe, by the swedish government for sexual crime. he has in the interest of ostensibly openness and transparency, exposed in his prior exposures, put people at risk by his doing that. so, i don't think those of us in the intelligence community have a whole lot of respect for him. >> admiral? >> i would echo those comments. >> thank you. senator? >> thank you, mr. chairman, thank you gentlemen for being here today and i do thank you for your service. gentlemen, as you all know about a year ago, congress passed the cyber security information sharing act, and director clapper, could you comment on what steps have been taken to implement the act in particular to provide cyber threat information and the possession of the federal government to nongovernment entities? >> there's been a lot of work done done and this is principally through the fbi and the department of homeland security to share mo

mr. assange? >> i don't think those of us in the intelligence community have a whole lot of respect for him. >> admiral? >> i would echo those comments. >> reporter: the public version of clapper's report, which outlines russia's motives, will be released next week. some sensitive details will be left out, but clapper says he is "pushing the envelope,at as possible because, josh, he says americans deserve to have the full picture. >> elliott: and, again, the president-elect will be briefed tomorrow. nancy cordes on capitol hill, nancy, thank you. well, the president-elect was reportedly considering leaving clapper's job vacant in the new administration. but today, he decided, on second thought, to fill it. here's jan crawford. >> reporter: in appointing former indiana senator dan coats, donald trump is tapping an establishment republican with strong foreign policy credentials. in the senate, he served on the intelligence committee, where he was a tough critic of russian president vladimir putin. a

director clapper, how would you describe mr assange? of us in the intelligence community have a whole lot of respect for him. then, this blunt and direct message for president—elect trump from a senior member of his own party. i want to let the president—elect know that it's ok to challenge the intel, you're absolutely right to want to do so, but what i don't want you to do is undermine those who are serving our nation in this arena until you're absolutely sure they need to be undermined. and i think they need to be uplifted, not undermined. trump tower these days has its own micro climate of twitter storms, and today was no different. the president—elect took to social media to complain thatjournalists were being dishonest in saying he agreed withjulian assange, and that he was a big fan of the intelligence community. the president—elect will receive a briefing from james clapper at trump tower tomorrow and that has the potential to be a very frosty meeting. the key question, will it alter his present thinking, that the russian hacking

mr. assange has popped up do you think there's credible we should attach to this individual given his record of -- >> not in my view. >> joined now senator ran paul. you're smiling. this most bizarre things in the world, why does trump keep denying the obvious to the facts. he looks the fact in the face says i don't believe it. russia doesn't have anything to do with me winning. >> russias did not change any votes. 70% of the people voted for donald trump. i would say this, nobody naive enough to say the russian do not hack into anything they bont don't to. everybody is hacking into everybody. we should protect ourselves. understand how people get information, how they steal it, get into our e-mails and we must protect ourselves. we can beat a dead horse and try to blame -- had has to do with different policy incht. >> the horse ain't dead yet because donald trump won't agree that the russians have helped. >> under oath lied to us. do i have skepticism toward people like julian assange, sure. i take it all with a grain of salt. james clapper slide under oath. that is without question. we can

director clapper, how would you describe mr assange? intelligence community have a whole lot of respect for him. then, this blunt and direct message for president—elect trump from a senior member of his own party. i want to let the president—elect know that it's ok to challenge the intel, you're absolutely right to want to do so, but what i don't want you to do is undermine those who are serving our nation in this arena until you're absolutely sure they need to be undermined. and i think they need to be uplifted, not undermined. trump tower these days has its own microclimate of twitter storms and today was no different. the president—elect took to social media to complain thatjournalists were being dishonest in saying he agreed withjulian assange and that he was a big fan of the intelligence community. donald trump will receive the treatment tomorrow. will it alter his thinking, that the russian hacking claims are a cock—up along the lines of iraqs weapons of mass destruction, rather than pointing to a kremlin conspiracy. and confirmat

mr. assange. >> don't think those in the intelligence community have a whole lot of respect for him. >> admiral? >> i would echo the comments. >> reporter: house speaker paul ryan says gop will move ahead to repeal affordable care act and insists his republican colleagues will come up with something to replace it before the end of the year. here again, nancy cordes. >> reporter: president obama actually apologized to democrats here on capitol hill for not doing a better job all these years selling obamacare. he urged them to get out there and tell personal stories of people who are benefiting from the law. but, with repeal, all but assured. the fight has really moved on now to who is going to get the blame if people lose coverage. >> the ayes have 51. nays, are 48. >> reporter: republicans took the first vote in the repeal process wednesday. >> now they're going to on it. >> reporter: as the two sides tangled over who is going to own the post repeal mess if there is one. >> the simple fact is the american people know who owns obamacare. the first half of the title. >> vice president elect mike

mr. assange with no what the ultimate origin of this was. en he saw the president-elect do was tweak out approvingly that julian assange made the point that a 14-year-old could have hacked into john podesta's computer. that is probably true because john podesta did not have to factor authentication on it. so he was siding with a man who the republican party was looking to extradite just a few years ago. he had led to the deaths of americans by what he leak in the state department and military cables. charlie: so we have this meeting coming together with the republican armed services committee. here -- ihey come up still do not know why the president is so resistant? what is it that he believes other than his explanation that the cia has been wrong before in iraq and weapons of mass destruction? certainly the cia has been wrong before and the list goes beyond iraq and weapons of mass disruption. just because they were wrong -- charlie: you have to have a reason to believe this. you cannot just doubt it. david: that is the big question. do we h

mr. assange? clapper: he is in the ecuadorian london.in under indictment i believe by the swedish government for a sexual crime. of openness and transparency exposed in his prior exposures put people at risk by his doing that. those of us in the intelligence community don't have a lot of respect for them. mccain: senator fischer. know,r fischer: as you congress passed the cyber security information sharing act. could you comment on what steps of been taken to implement the act, in particular to provide cyber threat information to nongovernment entities? clapper: there has been a lot of work done. both the fbi and the department of homeland with theto share more private sector. impact of this act, this is been a theme that we have all worked on. one of the reasons for the creation of the office of the director of national intelligence was a domestic role to promote sharing as much as we can. a lot of improvement has been made. as i look act over the last 15 years, there is more work to do. we have

mr. assange's lawyer, everything julian assange has said he is standing by. two big pieces of news, more on the way. joining us now is charlie savage, author of "power wars." mr. savage, thank you for being here. >> my pleasure, thank you for having me. >> is this an unexpected development from an administration that has been so aggressive in prosecuting people for leaking government information. >> unexpected in the sense that just as you said they've already at this point prosecuted nine or ten leak cases, that's trouble depending on how you count it. so ending an administration with this commutation and the pardon for general cartwright who was not charged with leaking but the lying to the fbi arose in the context of a leak investigation is an interesting twist at the end of obama's time in power because he will be remembered as a president who presided over tremendous criminalization of leaks. not unexpected in the last couple day there is have been rumblings about manning. i think you already played or maybe it was the earlier show josh earnest talking on

mr. a assange. the office of intelligence is an extraordinarily important position. it was designed to break down the wall that kept the agencies from sharing information. we all understand what policies in short you have security and liberty. and i would like to see some of the details with respect to what the president elect is talking about on intelligence, and i'm not willing to just say without any additional information top this position. it's supposed to ensure information is shared -- panic in the briefings have intelligence officials expressed any briefings about the skepticism about the findings? >> we are not getting into anything classified, but obviously intelligence officials going back to october 6, 2 of october -- they said they were very troubled about the interference in the election. >> [inaudible] >> i have not kept. >> i have, and i remain very concerned. >> so you met with him yesterday, i believe. what did he say to you about why he created these industries he's overseeing and is there any information whether he thinks he violated this act? >>

mr. trump supported what wikileaks did. i think what we all know is that julian assange is not someone we would call an honorable person. >> hold on a second, congresswom congresswoman. mr. trump has spoken -- >> wouldn't want our kids to roll model. >> he has said he has trusted julian assange over other news outlets. he has said that he has actually never called julian assange a traitor or spoken of him in the negative terms you are. >> i do not see julian assange as an upstanding person. i think what has gotten the democrats upset, and i can understand it, is the content of those e-mails. what that did was to affirm to so many people what they thought was going on behind the screens. now, the democrats should have had better encryption on their services. >> sure. but mr. trump never spoke out about what wikileaks was doing. in fact, he seemed to be supportive of what he was doing, when he invited people to look for more hacks and quoted those e-mails. >> what we have to do is not play thought police or what someone thinks because they have not spoken on something. i think that's a dangerous road to tread. i do think ther

mr. assange in a tweet. he got some criticism for that but earlier today mr. ump responded with a series of tweets following up, saying, i quote here, the dishonest media likes saying i'm in agreement with julian assange. wrong. i simply state what he states. it is for the people to make up their own minds as to the truth. he went on to say the media lies to make it look like i'm against intelligence when in fact i am a big fan. liz, back to you. liz: blake burman, live in d.c., thank you so much. let me get to disney. for everybody who has ever watched espn this is either a crying uncle or something. espn and disney have got to do something. they have been losing a lot of subscribers. while the mouse house latest film, star woes, rogue nation, espn has been a thorn in disney's side. it has been a problem. there is breaking news about disney, they say they are growing to figure out a way to keep the cord cutters. they will do direct espn to the consumer without involving cable. perfect person to have on this, barry diller. chairman of iac interactive. you just

mr. assange's name has popped up.elieve he's the one who is responsible for publishing names of individuals that work for us that put their lives in direct danger. is that correct? >> yes, he has. >> and do you think that there's any credibility we should attach to this individual given his record of -- >> not in my view. >> not in your view. >> admiral rogers? >> i would second those comments. >> so before the hearing today, trump took to twitter and tweeted "the dishonest media likes saying i am in agreement with julian assange. wrong, i simply state what he states. it is for the people to make up their own mind for the truth. the media lies to make it look like i am against, quote, intelligence when in fact i am a big fan. >> danielle, nice to have you on. >> pleasure. >> out of the gate how do you see it regarding trump and assange? >> you know, i think the president-elect has perhaps stepped a little bit over the line on his statements about assange, but i also think that we just need to get used to this. you kno

mr. assange, he leaked information throughout the campaign through wikileaks. we do not know his connection to russia at this time. >> what about when the president-elect expresses skepticism about the intelligence community? >> i've been a partner with the intelligence community. they have been wrong at times like with the iraq assessment. we have to have a healthy amount of get this is an. at the same time, with respect to the russian interference in our elections, i found the evidence that i was briefed upon it a classified and unclassified setting, it was very clear that it was a nationstate attack. i made that clear both to the obama administration and the incoming administration. >> yes or. -- yes sir. >> [inaudible] >> great question. it has come up a lot in transition team discussions. i know that this cyber community -- the military side versus the intelligence i will be split. with respect to the roles, i think the roles we set forth in the cyber security act that are in current law remain very much in place today. it will be a grave mistake to change

mr. assange popped up and i believe that he is one who is responsible for publishing names of individualswork for us that put their lives in danger; is that correct? >> yes, he has. >> do you think there is any credibility attached to this individual. >> not in my view. >> not in your view. >> admir areal -- admiral rogers. >> i agree with that. >> melissa: i simply state what he states tis for the people to make up their own minds. the media lies to make it look like i am against intelligence and i in fact a fan. coreyy lewandowski is a former trump manager. one of the problems, when he puts intelligence in quotes, it is implying it is an insult. >> no, that is not the case, you have president-elect getting the presidential daily briefing three times a week and he's meeting with the intelligence officer and people around him on a daily basis to make sure that he has the full understanding of what he is taking place in the intelligence community and also important and the president's job to question information that he's receiving and the american public is receiving. you have a public el

mr. assange said he did not obtain published,l that he that wikileaks published, from a state source forsian source, something he has been fairly consistent on. now, who he obtained it from and who actually broke in and got it are not necessarily the same person. so it is not clear that mr. know what the ultimate origin of this was. when he saw the president-elect tweet out approvingly that julian assange made the point that a 14-year-old could have hacked into john podesta's computer. that is probably true because john podesta did not have factor authentication on it. so he was siding with a man who the republican party was looking to extradite just a few years ago. for what he had done that had led to the deaths of americans by what he leaked in the state department and military cables. charlie: so we have this meeting coming together with the republican armed services committee. and then they come up here -- i still do not know why the president is so resistant? what is it that he believes other than his explanation that the cia has been wrong before in as it was in iraq and weapons o

mr. assange, a hand maiden of terror and he definitely has blood on his hands as far as i'm concerned. >> so was donald trump giving credibility to assange a turning point for you? >> not really, i think you can pull a quote out of something said by a really bad person and found it useful. i've been particularly fond of trotsky's you may not be particularly fond of war but war is interesting to you. i use it a lot. not showing allegiance to trotsky by saying it. >> p.j. crowley to you first, you've been on the front line, what do you make of the rift that donald trump has created with the intelligence community? >> i think he's painted himself into a corner certainly as we look forward to the confirmation hearings of his national security team, he's done them no favors. we saw this morning in the thoughtful hearing on capitol hill, a very strong sentiment by members of the senate on bipartisan basis that this is a serious situation, some even called it attack on the united states. i'm not sure i would use that terminology necessarily. but coming up next week with his team on capitol hill,

mr. assange, we know that he leaked information throughout the campaign through wikileaks. what that relationship is between him and the russian government remains unclear at this time. >> does it make your job harder when the president elect expresses skepticism about the intelligence community? >> i have been a partner with the intelligence community. they have been wrong at times like with the iraq assessmentmeassessment. so i think we have to have a healthy amount of skepticism. at the same time, with respect to the russian interference in our elections, i found the evidence that i was briefed upon both in a classified and non-classified setting was very clear that it was a nation state attack. and i made that clear both to again the obama administration and the incoming administration. >> -- cybersecurity in a context of how it will take a more common role, how do you see these responsibilities -- [ inaudible ] >> that's a great question. and it's come up a lot in transition team discussions. i know that the cyber command itself will be i think the military side versus

mr. assange's name has been raised as some kind of a credible source of information.nd the fact is that he is one of the worst individuals because he put the lives of men and women who were serving this nation in jeopardy because -- by revealing their identities and where they were. this is really a person who has put the lives of americans in danger. he cannot be trusted for anything. >> as you can see, really coming to a head between republicans on capitol hill and donald trump over the issue of russia and how to approach vladimir putin. something that mccain hopes that trump watched this hearing and will listen to the intelligence briefers tomorrow when they do talk to him about these hacks. but one piece of potentially good news for donald trump, i asked john mccain, what do you think about rex tillerson and his relationship with putin, which mccain has been critical of. mccain sounded more optimistic. he said they had a conversation yesterday, a positive conversation. he swayed some of his concerns, not all of his concerns, but clearly thinks more highly of him n

mr. assange's comments. and i refer you to the justice department for any criminal investigations, indictments extradition issues that may come up with him. what i can say broadly is that in this knew cyber age, we're going to have to make sure that we continually work to find the right balance of accountability and openness and transparency that is the hallmark of our democracy but also recognize that there are adversaries and bad actors out there who want to use that same openness in ways that hurt us. whether that's in trying to commit financial crimes or trying to commit acts of terrorism or folks who want to interfere with our elections. and we're going to have to continually build the kind of architecture to make sure the best of our democracy is preserved, that our national security and intelligence agencies have the ability to carry out policy without advertising what it is that we're doing but in a way that still keeps sicitizens up to spd on what their government is doing on their behalf but with r

mr. assange's tweets, so that wasn't a consideration in this instance. and i refer you to the justice department for any criminal investigations, indictments, extradition issues that may come up with him. what i can say probably is that broadly is that in this new cyber age, we are going to have to make sure that we theinually work to find right balance of accountability and openness and transparency that is the hallmark of our democracy, but also recognize and there are adversaries bad actors out there who want to use that same openness in ways that hurt us. whether that is in trying to commit financial crimes or trying to commit acts of terrorism or folks who want to interfere with our elections. and we are going to have to continually build the kind of architecture to make sure the best of our democracy is preserved, that our national security and intelligence agencies have the ability to carry out policy without advertising to our adversaries what it is we are doing, but do so in a way that still keeps citizens up to speed on what their government is

mr. assange? >> i don't think us in the intelligence community have a lot of respect for him. >> the intelligence officials testified that they never found any evidence in their entire review that the voting tallies were changed. they say it's not the position to assess the impact of the multifaceted campaign from e-mails to disinformation and the use of state news on voters and if it changed their mind. >> when will we see the reports, catherine? >> the review was completed last night and given to the president today and then he was briefed. the president-elect gets it tomorrow. the public version, which is the unclassified version, which will be thinner and not as much detail because they don't want to compromise sources and mets will be next week. the testimony today indicated they wanted to be forward-leaning about the details of who was behind it and the motive. >> do you think in the report next week that you all will ascribe a motivation to putin for the election attempt? >> yes, we will as

mr. assange. not only should he ignore julian assange, he should condemn him for what he's done to our country. >> reporter: assange insists his information isn't coming from the russian government. >> our source is not a state party. sorry, the answer for our interactions is no. >> reporter: as cia director brennan questions his credibility. >> he's not exactly a bastian of truth and integrity. >> reporter: and implores skeptics to wait for the upcoming intelligence report on russia. >> i would suggest to individuals who have not yet seen the report, not yet briefed on it that they wait and see what it is that the intelligence community is putting forward before they make those judgments. >> reporter: today vice president-elect mike pence is backing up his boss's leeriness of u.s. intelligence. >> i think that the president-elect has expressed his very sincere and healthy american skepticism about intelligence conclusions. >> reporter: trump did secure one additional ally in his support for assang